Issue #27 - July 12, 2024

Welcome to Issue #27!

Some of what’s inside this week:

🤔 Assessment of Rogers Networks for Resiliency and Reliability Following the 8 July 2022 Outage – Executive Summary

🇨🇦 CIRA’s Canada’s Internet Fact Book, 2024

🚀 Europe’s Ariane 6 Rocket Launched After 4-Year Delay

🕵️‍♂️ Chinese self-driving cars have quietly travelled 1.8 million miles on U.S. roads, collecting detailed data with cameras and lasers

🤖 AI-Powered Super Soldiers Are More Than Just a Pipe Dream

👽 Learn About - The Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA)

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Canada Broadband and some US Stuff

Assessment of Rogers Networks for Resiliency and Reliability Following the 8 July 2022 Outage – Executive Summary

In the early morning of 8 July 2022, Rogers Communications Inc. (Rogers) experienced a major service outage in its Internet Protocol (IP) core network that affected its wireless and wireline services across Canada (July 2022 outage). The July 2022 outage lasted from 4:58 EDT on 8 July 2022 to 7:00 EDT on 9 July 2022 as services were gradually restored. More than 12 million customers lost wireless and wireline services, including mobile subscribers, home Internet users, corporate customers, and institutional customers that provide critical services (e.g., Interac e-Transfer and electronic payment services).

Read the whole article, complete with root cause info, assessments and recommendations

My Take: One of the recommendations is to “leverage emerging non-geostationary orbit satellite constellations (e.g., low earth orbit satellite constellations) to provide remote sites with backup connectivity and consider emerging direct-to-cell constellations for emergency 9-1-1 calling.”

For an online discussion from those “in the know”, and banter about the recommendation to split networks, follow this link

Doug Dawson from CCG Consulting recently posted an article about the 2024 ATT Outage. People are the greatest risk. Still.

CIRA’s Canada’s Internet Fact Book, 2024

CIRA has a mission to promote a trusted internet—and helping Canadians understand how we access and use the internet is an important part of that effort.

To help advance the national conversation about the internet’s role in our daily lives, CIRA publishes its Canada’s Internet Factbook survey on an annual basis. You can learn more about the findings of this year’s survey in the sections that follow below.

The Canada’s Internet Factbook 2024 survey was conducted by The Strategic Counsel in March 2024. Two thousand adult Canadian internet users (18+) were surveyed via an online panel. The goal of the survey was to identify trends in Canadian internet access and use. 

Read the full article

Read the full Report

My Take: So, I grabbed this one chart - and there are many, many charts. The article has some summary findings about GenAI usage, fraud, credibility, bla, bla..

Anyway, the data is odd to me (and there is a whole section on the demographic data set). Assuming this isn’t the same data set as last year, and assuming there’s some randomization to it, and with all the money going into infrastructure in this country, across the 2,000 surveyed, they really found no change in fibre-connected users, an increase in DSL connections, yet FWA dropped and satellite was a mere 3%?

I wonder if this information is gleaned from their speedtest tool—the one that tests from the device and not the network's ingress/egress point to the prem.

I’d like to see a chart that shows how many people have a clue what service tier they even subscribe to and correlate that with the “are you happy with your service”, skewed up age, gender, type of use and geography.

Google Fiber, Nokia test 50G PON, but it's not symmetric

Asked what GFiber’s roadmap is for 50G PON, Hsu said this test is just the first step to start getting familiar with 50G and how it will coexist with other PON on its network. “This technology doesn’t just support faster in-home internet speeds, it will also allow ISPs to densify their networks, supporting more traffic across the entire network and allowing for more seamless response to spikes in demand or stress on the network. In the future, we may consider building new markets with 50G PON technology,” Hsu said.

Unfortunately, the 50G trial between GFiber and Nokia did not provide symmetrical speeds.

Although 50G is the ITU’s next step function for PON technology, Heynen said it likely won’t see major uptake until 2029 or 2030 and into the following decade.

Read the whole article

My Take: Enterprise. That’s where this will live. With WiFi 7. We’re fine up here with 50/10. Nothing to see here. Move along.